Just when you think you’ve seen it all, something new leaps onto the center stage with a fanfare of flügelhorns (once heard, never forgotten). In this case, it’s an alternative way to perform AI inference and anomaly detection on the edge, eliminating the need to use artificial neural networks (ANNs) and instead employing a largely forgotten branch of Russian research from the 1960s … Read More → "Have We Been Doing Edge AI the Hard Way All Along?"
Before we start, I should note that I always enjoy chatting with company representatives for these columns—although, in some cases, we may be asking the word “enjoy” to do some heavy lifting. Happily, conversations with folks like Kyle Fox, Senior Director at NXP Semiconductors, require no such linguistic gymnastics.
On the off chance you don’t know, … Read More → "Want Physical AI? Just Add Water!"
When I was a kid growing up in the 1960s, I fully believed that humans could live on both Mars and Venus without requiring special suits or survival gear. This was because I had discovered the wonderful world of science fiction. Many of the books I devoured (figuratively speaking) described Mars as a dusty frontier world with a thin, dry atmosphere. By comparison, Venus was portrayed as a foggy, … Read More → "Should We Terraform Mars (“Yay” or “Nay”)?"
